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Author Brumberg, Joan Jacobs.

Title Fasting girls : the history of anorexia nervosa / Joan Jacobs Brumberg.

Publication Info. New York : Vintage Books, 2000.
1989.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.8526 BRU    Check Shelf
Edition First Vintage Books edition.
Description xvii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note Previously published: 1989.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Anorexia nervosa in the 1980s -- From Sainthood to patienthood -- The debate over fasting girls -- Emergence of the modern disease -- Love and food in the Bourgeois family -- Therapeutic intervention -- The appetite as voice -- Hormones and psychotherapy -- Modern dieting.
Subject Anorexia nervosa -- History.
Anorexia nervosa -- Social aspects.
Teenage girls -- Diseases -- History.
Anorexia Nervosa -- history.
Socioeconomic Factors.
ISBN 0375724486 paperback
9780375724480 paperback
0375724532
9780375724534
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